[josephcsible]

> The big selling point was the open source nature, free updates forever. Less than six months later, Redhat announced that the were going to discontinue RedHat Linux and start releasing their new RedHat Enteprise Linux.

I wish there were legal consequences when companies lied about future prices of things or durations of support.

[dcow]

I mean there are if you are under contract or otherwise paid for a product as advertised…

[omniglottal]

How about if you are under EULA, and paid $0 as advertised?

[josephcsible]

Indeed. It's absurd for them to be able to treat EULAs as real signed contracts when you violate them, but as nothing at all when they do.